Klara Liden in Graffiti

With Graffiti Museion presented a landmark exhibition about the relationship between graffiti and contemporary fine art. The first museum exhibition in Italy to investigate the art history of spray paint, Graffiti focused on how the visual vernacular of the city and the street has entered the studio. Above all, the show contended that graffiti is a way of seeing and experiencing urban landscapes.

Bringing together transdisciplinary works from across a 70 year period, the show centered on an approach that moves beyond the historization of graffiti as an “outsider” practice. Beginning with pre-graffiti spray paintings from the 1950s and 1960s, the exhibition unfolded through works by renowned graffiti writers of the 1980s, and contemporary artists who implement graffiti into their diverse practices.